art, colored dragon
Subject: some random dragon
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of color pencil
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: ( lengthy notes on my process, because this is the first time I used acrylics to color a drawing and felt rambly, feel free to skip if you just want to look at the picture. )
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of color pencil
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: ( lengthy notes on my process, because this is the first time I used acrylics to color a drawing and felt rambly, feel free to skip if you just want to look at the picture. )
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applied the first background glazes completely wet in wet,
Interesting. I tried wet in wet acrylics only once, but it was an exercise in frustration. Wet on dry works well for me OTOH... I only recently started using acrylics as glazes, and I'm almost starting to prefer them to watercolors.
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To apply the watery acrylics on the wet ground worked pretty much like I expected, but then I didn't want more than some kind of even gradient from top to bottom and did it under the dragon outline too, so I didn't do anything complicated. Had I done it on dry paper, the different colors would have dried too quickly for the large area, and I would have gotten stripes I suspect.
I've never used watercolors much, and never really got the hang of how you handle them properly and make use of how soluble they are, so with acrylics I like that they do not dissolve again once a layer dried and that you can use lighter colors over darker ones too.
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